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03/24/2022 8:35 a.m.
Unfortunately, it has been revealed that Stephen E Wilhitecomputer scientist responsible for creating the GIF, He passed away on March 14 at the age of 74.this after a health complication caused by COVID-19.
This information was confirmed by Kathaleen Wilhite, his wife, who shared a page for his obituary. Stephen is remembered for creating the Graphic Interchange Format, or GIF for short.while working at CompuServe in 1987. Several messages from former colleagues have pointed out that Stephen also made other significant contributions during his time at this company, describing a hard worker who had a huge influence on the company’s success.
The original idea of GIFs was to offer a compressed image format, but of high quality. In this way, could be easily used on websites, social networks and interactive guideswhich at that time they used with a slow internet that was not capable of using other types of multimedia content.
In 2013, Stephen was awarded the Webby Award, one of the highest honors in the internet industry. In his acceptance speech, the scientist created a great controversy, since he revealed that “GIF” is pronounced as “JIF”. Today, his creation is used in people’s daily lives, mainly as a meme.
Via: TheVerge